San Jose
Mercury-NewsOracle
boss urges national ID cards, offers free softwareBroaching a controversial subject that
has gained visibility since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Oracle
Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison is calling for the United States
to create a national identification card system -- and offering
to donate the software to make it possible. -- Under Ellison's
proposal, millions of Americans would be fingerprinted and the
information would be placed on a database used by airport security
officials to verify identities of travelers at airplane gates.

Toronto
StarA
clear role for Canada as Bush gets it just right When Jean Chrétien meets George
W. Bush in Washington tomorrow, he should set aside not only
the usual Canadian apprehensions over our involvement in an American-initiated
war but also the current concerns over American demands for harmonizing
our immigration and refugee policies with theirs. If the Prime
Minister treads carefully, Canada can deliver on both fronts
without compromising our traditions or sovereignty. -- Notwithstanding
the reservations of Canada's peace constituency......

Lodi News
- Joe GuzzardiDon't
wave the flag in my face, close the borderIf you are one of the tens of thousands
of Americans who bought a flag this week, my column is dedicated
to you. -- Or if you're among the millions who linked hands in
church to sing "God Bless America" then pay special
attention to what you are about to read. -- The unhappy message
that I have to deliver to almost of you who are now bursting
with patriotism is that you have helped - through your passivity
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North County
TimesStrict
border inspections making an impactTightening security at San Diego County's
international ports of entry in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks is changing the way people on both sides of the border
live, work and shop. -- And the fear of more attacks, coupled
with the likelihood of war, may lead to tougher immigration laws,
derailing efforts by the United States and Mexico to ease border
restrictions between the two countries.

Denver PostLamm
speaks against importing workersFormer Gov. Richard Lamm told a hostile
audience Friday that immigration is fueling runaway population
growth, draining public resources and undermining the U.S. labor
force. "You get the cheap labor. The community gets incredible
costs. . . . Cheap labor really isn't. Cheap labor is subsidized
labor," Lamm said at a conference on immigration issues
before the Rural Resort Region, a consortium of five mountain
counties.

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Re:
The embarrassment on the BayIt is shooting fish in a barrel to object to
recent silliness in Berkeley about flags not being displayed
and Rep. Barbara Lee's negative vote. But these actions -- while
regrettable to many in this community -- are symbolic in nature
and do not affect anti- terrorist policies. -- Residents of Los
Angeles might more constructively consider Special
Order 40 which remains in place as a protection to illegal
aliens in the city.

4
SEIU Leaders Get Grant From Ford FoundationThe four leaders led a successful campaign
to unionize fellow building-service workers in Los Angeles County.
That effort -- supported by other workers, religious institutions
and community residents -- spurred a nationwide campaign called
Justice for Janitors.

Alamance
IndependentEven
after attacks, Washington still "amnestying" illegal
aliensAs incredible as it sounds, Washington
continues to give illegal aliens "temporary" amnesty
- even after the massive terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. -- In
fact, the day after the terrorist attacks killed at least 7,300
people in Manhattan and at the Pentagon, the INS extended by
another year "temporary" amnesty given to some illegal
aliens from Somalia - and gave it to even more illegals from
Somalia.

The News
- Mexico CityHigh
number of Mideast guests at resorts vexes officials Investigators are tracing the activities
of an "unusually high" number of guests of Middle Eastern
heritage who stayed at Mexican resorts in the weeks leading up
to the terrorist attacks in the United States, officials said
late last week.Sixteen of these visitors were at hotels in the
region of Ixtapa between July and five days before the attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon....

Orlando
SentinelForeigners
easily cross U.S. border, hideWhen Shariq Hasan applied for a student
visa at the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, he was surprised
by some of the questions. -- "When you get there, you're
really nervous because what you say is going to determine whether
you study in the United States or not," said Hasan, now
a student at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona
Beach and president of the Muslim Students Association there.

L.A. Daily
News - OpinionThe
embarrassment on the BayLest anyone doubt American tolerance,
just pay a visit up north to Berkeley. -- While the rest of the
country stands together, Berkeley stands aside -- as the loudest,
silliest and most irritating critic of common sense.

Winston-Salem
JournalNumber
of INS prisoners increases upThe county jail that is also the detention
center in Eastern North Carolina for the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service has been busier than normal in the past
week. -- Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the INS has increased
the number of detainees brought to and from the Franklin County
jail, Sheriff Robert Redmond said. The detainees are federal
prisoners, and Redmond said he has no details about their names
or nationalities.At least one man is
being held on charges of suspected immigration fraud.

L.A. Daily
NewsImmigration
amnesty plan fadesAmnesty for some undocumented immigrants
has become a casualty of last week's catastrophe, with the Bush
administration focused on tightening security at home and waging
war on terrorism abroad. -- "This is a wake-up call,"
said Dan Stein, director of the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, a Washington- based group that has long advocated tighter
border controls and tougher penalties for undocumented aliens
and their U.S. employers.

Bergen RecordArab-Americans
upset by profilingAt the height of the war on drugs, federal
authorities classified the enemy as Mexican, Colombian, and Jamaican
drug couriers traveling the nation's highways. -- In this new
war on terrorism, the enemy, federal authorities say, is a cadre
of Islamic extremists who feel it's their religious obligation
to kill Americans. -- While the wars are vastly different, they
pose the same law enforcement dilemma: how to recognize the enemy
among America's ethnically and racially diverse faces.

Seattle
TimesFew
resources spent guarding Canada borderWhile thousands of U.S. soldiers are
being shipped halfway across the globe to fight terrorism, little
manpower has been focused on a problem much closer to home: Canada.
Experts on both sides of the 4,000-mile border say the nation
to the north is a haven for terrorists, and that the U.S.- Canada
line is little more barrier than ink on a map. -- Most of the
world's prominent terrorist organizations have cells within Canada's
borders.

The News
- Mexico CityMore
illegals non-Mexicans, Arizona officials say The illegal entrants being caught by
the Border Patrol along the Arizona sector of the boundary increasingly
are from nations other than Mexico, officials say. -- "We
don't know what it means," spokesman Rene Noriega said Friday.
-- Most of the non-Mexican migrants are from El Salvador and
other parts of Central America, but agents have picked up people
from all over the world, including the former Soviet Union, Asia,
and the Middle East.